Infrastructure/Operations Support - L3

• 12 Months Contract 
• Cork Location - 2 days/week on-site requirement
• €230-€260/Daily Rate

This role is pivotal in maintaining a secure, resilient, and compliant compute environment across a large multi-site campus. You’ll support 1,000+ users, collaborate with global IT teams, manage vendors, and drive infrastructure stability, security, and performance.

• Maintain stability, operational performance, and resilience of compute environments across the Cork campus, minimising downtime and incidents.

• Oversee security posture, including patching, antivirus tools, and compliance with global standards.

• Coordinate disaster recovery testing and support SQL environments across the site.

• Support global security initiatives and ensure required controls testing is completed.

• Engage with managed service providers and third-party vendors covering compute, SQL, and manufacturing systems.

• Participate in compute and network infrastructure projects and collaborate with cross-functional technical teams.

• Track and report compute spend, working with finance and IT leadership on budgeting and trend analysis.

• Communicate security metrics and influence stakeholders to follow IT best practice.

• Manage maintenance contract renewals, proposals, quotations, and vendor troubleshooting efforts.

• 5+ years' experience in compute-focused IT operations.

• Strong technical knowledge across Compute, Network, Security, and Workplace Services.

• Proven experience working with multiple internal teams and external vendors.

• Degree/Masters in a related discipline or equivalent industry experience.

• Certifications in areas such as Microsoft Windows OS, MS SQL, VMware, Cisco, Azure/Cloud.

• Minimum five years’ Workplace Services exposure. (Desirable)

• Strong stakeholder and vendor management capability.

• Experience supporting executives and senior leadership.

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

• Proven end-to-end ownership of problem-solving and solution delivery.

• Ability to influence across functions and communicate across organizational levels.

• Knowledge of teleconferencing technologies and broad IT/OT integration understanding.

• Awareness of IT governance practices and enterprise priorities.

• Prior experience with some or all of the following is highly advantageous:

  • SAN storage, backup appliances (Rubrik, Veritas), tape libraries

  • ESXi hosts, VMware environments

  • Cisco switches, Cisco ISE

  • Active Directory, Group Policy

  • RDS/Citrix, Symantec, WSUS, BigFix

  • Patching & vulnerability management

  • Database management

  • ServiceNow, change/problem/incident management

  • Vendor access management

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